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pedlar Slang, Derog., Hist.

• 1a n. Fur Trade in the usage of the men of the Hudson's Bay Company: a. a coureur de bois, especially one who competed for trade in Rupert's Land, thus being considered an interloper.

  See also: coureur de bois (def. 1)  French pedlar  master pedlar  Rupert's Land  

• 1b n. after 1776, a member of the North West Company.

  See also: North West Company  Northwest pedlar  

• 2 n. Fur Trade an American trader.

• 3 n. Nfld See quote.